This news comes from a tweet put out by Io Interactive today. As you can read below, the game has five millions players and that number is “rising.” Io also take the opportunity to thank their supportive community.

HITMAN now has more than 5 million players!Thank you to our entire community for your continued support & making the game a huge success! pic.twitter.com/ik9mBAUtt8

This player milestone wouldn’t necessarily be all that impressive if it weren’t for the fact that Square Enix recently dropped Hitman and Io Interactive from its publishing catalogue.

The reason Square Enix gave for that is the “extraordinary loss” they saw while investing in Io Interactive over the years. The impressive we got was that Hitman didn’t make enough money for Square Enix to continue publishing and financing it.